![]() In the government’s defense, more rescue crews would have likely caused even more gridlock and even more of a delay in reaching these villages. How does this compare to the earthquake in Turkey? In Turkey is the help arrived so fast and the government let people work so fast. So you were in the Turkish earthquake, too. The things here in Morocco is very slowly. Has the military been helping with fuel and logistics? Tell me how they’ve been assisting. We can’t talk about this.” When I spoke with another crew who was volunteering, he was able to speak a lot more candidly about what was going on. And then his captain interrupts me and goes, “No political questions. I try and ask him about the government’s role in all this, the disorganization. We had a few moments to speak with one of the lieutenants. It was a really frustrating and bizarre sense of inaction because they’re waiting to be directed by the Moroccan military and government, who are heading up all the operations. They’re starting to jump out of the truck. We arrive at this village, Ijoukak, and the Spanish team is getting out their dogs. As you keep going deeper, you notice the damage gets more and more extensive and starts to make it near impossible to move and access these villages. But we quickly realized that with the logistics, they weren’t able to do what they came to do. ![]() We were hoping to see a miracle to see them rescue someone. The Spanish team arrived on Sunday and they just got the green light to go into the mountains on Tuesday. And we found a Spanish military professional rescue crew that was just heading out up into the mountains to these remote villages that are extremely difficult to access. ![]() We set out early Tuesday morning to try and catch one of these rescue crews that had recently arrived. They spent much of the day waiting for orders. Transcript Gridlock, Confusion and Waiting: On the Road With Spanish Rescuers in Morocco Our video journalists embedded with a team of Spanish military rescuers in Morocco as they attempted to save lives after the earthquake.
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